NetApp AltaVault Initial Setup
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Pusoloso Mokitimi-Lekhutlile
EUT Analyst at Absa Group Ltd
The initial setup phase of the tool was difficult. My company had engineers who were involved in the installation and configuration phases of the solution, who specifically found the configuration part to be a difficult task.
View full review »The initial setup is pretty straightforward. I'd rate it eight out of ten in terms of ease of implementation.
How long it takes to deploy really depends on the customer. As far as baseline deployment, not really moving data, that normally would take just a couple days, or maybe more if it's huge. However, the policies and more on the design side need to be done before you go to actually deploy it. That can take a decent amount of planning. It's more about strategy. It is probably more like a week total time in planning and architecture.
You have to get stakeholder buy-in in terms of how long things are retained and what that looks like. As far as the actual people doing the hands-on keyboardin for implementation, it's something one or two people could do.
View full review »I was not actually involved. It was one of my partners. My counterpart set it up but then I did the migration between SteelStore to the AltaVault.
It wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be. It was actually a complete rebuild, and then migrate the database. And then to get that license from our sales team. I thought it was gonna take me a couple of hours, it took me a couple of days, but it still wasn't too bad.
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NetApp AltaVault
April 2024
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SrStorEng65465
Senior Storage Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I was involved in the initial setup. It was very straightforward.
View full review »It's pretty straightforward. Nothing out of the ordinary.
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reviewer1302873
Pre-sales Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The initial setup is so straightforward it doesn't require very many prerequisites.
The deployment time depends on the size of the data. In general, we can say that testing, taking the data back and forth, can take about two days.
You just need one person for deployment and maintenance. You do not need a big team. If your business model is having one support and deployment team and they are doing the same job, then you can have one person. If it's different departments, you can have one for the support and you can have one for the implementation and that's it.
Straightforward. Super simple.
We're connected to public cloud, to Azure, and right now we're using NetBackup but we're looking to move into Veeam.
View full review »The initial setup took 90 minutes. It deployed on the floor and was actively being used in 90 minutes.
Up until now, it has been AWS, though we are looking at the storage grid in the future. For a backup software, we're using SnapManager with the SnapCenter, or with SnapManager 3.0, it's really good. There's no third party bits there.
We are looking looking to use Veeam in the future as a repository to leverage all their great stuff.
View full review »I was not involved in the setup.
View full review »The initial setup can be a little more complex. It's a lot of policy. It's complex for good reason.
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reviewer1302873
Pre-sales Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The initials setup isn't complex. It's quite straight forward.
In terms of deployment, It depends on the number of users a company has. Once it is started, it doesn't take more than 30 minutes.
View full review »It was very simple. You power it up, give it some basic details, get an Amazon account, plug it in, and it works.
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HeadOfPu42f3
Head of Purchasing at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
We used a consultant for the installation and deployment and the service was excellent. The initial setup was straightforward. You just follow the instructions.
View full review »The initial setup is straightforward.
View full review »I was involved in the initial setup in my organization. We connected AltaVault to to AWS Glacier, and for backup software, EMC NetWorker.
The initial setup was fairly straightforward. There were not many issues at all with the setup and configuration. The Glacier side setup was a little unclear, due to some problem with documentation, but we were able to work through it together.
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NetApp AltaVault
April 2024
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